Business Donors Hedge Their Bets

Many Increase Donations
To Democrats, Evening
War Chests in Final Days

By

Jeanne Cummings

Updated Oct. 27, 2006 11:59 p.m. ET

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WASHINGTON -- More than one-quarter of top corporate political donors have stepped up their giving slightly to Democrats, in an apparent effort to hedge their bets on which party controls Congress after next month's elections.